Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ailing.) on Sunday famous the previous trauma in President Biden’s household when speaking about his current pardon of his son Hunter Biden.
“This can be a man who loves his kids and has gone by means of fairly an ordeal, having misplaced a former spouse and baby in [an] car accident, and seeing the 2 boys, Beau and Hunter, undergo critical hospital stays and attempt to rebuild their lives,” Durbin told anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“If I have to have a bias in this area, it’s a loving parent who wants to protect his child, I understand that situation, and I understand Michael Bennett’s observation,” he added, referencing the objection of Sen. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.) to Biden’s pardon.
The president argued in a press release final Sunday that fees introduced in opposition to his son, which have included three felony fees on his buy and possession of a gun in 2018, happened attributable to political causes.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” Biden stated.
Bennet stated in a publish on the social platform X Monday that the president’s “decision put personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.” The Colorado Democrat was joined in his distaste for the pardon by different Senate Democrats, together with Sens. Peter Welch (Vt.), Gary Peters (Mich.), and Tammy Baldwin (Wis.).
President Biden’s determination to pardon his son marked a reversal from his earlier stance, because the president and his allies had stated he was not going to supply a pardon for greater than a 12 months.
“He promised he wouldn’t do it, and now he’s doing it, but it’s a labor of love,” Durbin stated Sunday.
